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CONTENTS. 
AETICLB PAGB 
X. — Annual Eepoit of the Consulting Chemist for 1885. By 
J. Augustus Voelcker, Ph.D., B.Sc 316 
XI. — Report of the Consulting Botanist for 1885. By W. Car- 
ruthers, F.R.S 325 
XII. — Report on the Cheesemaking Competition at Preston. By 
Mrs. L. Xuttall and Mrs. E. Gibbons 333 
XIII. — Quarterly Reports of the Chemical Committee, 1885 .. .. 336 
Additions to the Library in 1885 353 
XIV. — The Lung Parasites of Cattle and Sheep, with Report on 
Experiments. By the late T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D., 
F.R.S., Foreign Member of the Royal Agricultui'al Acadercy 
of Turin " 361 
XV.— The Winter of 1885-86. By Henry F. Moore, of Frome, 
Somerset 377 
XVI. — Abortion in Cows : — An Inquirj- into several local Outbreaks 
of this Affection, occurrin.^ in the neighbourhood of Kirkby 
Overblow, Yorkshire. By C. J. B. Johnson, L.R.C.P., &c. 442 
XYII. — Report on the Experiments on Ensilage conducted at Crawley 
Mill Farm, Wobum, 1884-85, and 1885-86. By Dr. 
J. Augustus Voelcker, B.A., B.Sc, Consultiug Chemist to 
the Society 483 
XVIII. — Sheep-feeding Experiments conducted at Crawley Mill Farm, 
Woburu, in the Winter of 1885-6. By Dr. J. Augustus 
Voelcker, B.A., B.Sc, Consulting Chemist to the Society 514 
XIX. — Report on the Exhibition of Implements at Xorwich. By 
Sir J. H. Thorold, Bart., Senior Steward 524 
XX. — Report of the Judges of Imjilements at Norwich. By John 
Wheatley, of Watford, Herts ".. .. 527 
XXI. — Xote on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1885 565 
XXII. — Report on the Farm- Prize Competition in Norfolk and Suffoll^ 
in 1886. By W. J. Moscrop, Loftus, Saltburn-by-the-Sca, 
Yorkshire 566 
XXIII. — Report of the Senior Steward of Live-Stock. By Alfred 
Ashworth, of Tabley Grange, Knutsford, Senior Steward .. 664 
XXIV. ^ — Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Norwich. B_v 
Sanders Sjiencer, ol Holywell IManor, St. Ives, Hunts. .. 671 
XXV. — Poultry at the Norwich Show. By Edward Brown, F.L.S., 
Editor of the 'Fanciers' Gazette' 713 
XXVI. — The recent appearance of the Hessian Fly, Cecidomyia 
destructor (Say), in Great Britain. By Miss Eleanor A. 
Ormerod, Consulting Entomologist to the Royal Agricul- 
tural Society .. , 721 
XXYII. — Official Reports on the Hessian Fly, Cecidomyia destructor 
(Say). By Charles Whitehead, F.L.S., F.G.S., of Barmiug 
House, Maidstone .. 727 
XXVIII. — -Notes on the Cultivation of Tobacco in the North- West of 
Europe By II. M. Jenkins, F.G.S., Secretary of the 
Society and Editor of the "Journal" 72D 
